I think the blame for this lies entirely at the feet of the oil and gas companies. Spending hundreds of millions spreading lies and climate change denial, whilst simultaneously donating massively to political parties to ensure their support. I guess when you are making tens of billions of pounds a year, that's what you can spend to protect your profits.

The political donations make it hard for politicians to act (but not impossible), but the lies and climate denial meant there was cover for the politicians inaction.

I don't actually think he's the best candidate to beat Trump, but assuming he was the Dems best chance, would what we know so far about his behaviour (bad and unwanted, but certainly not criminal) rule him out as a candidate?

Excellent, so that's 20,000 new plumbers we'll need. What about insulating all houses? And installing solar panels on every roof? And battery packs in every house? And changing the electricity grid over to support these renewables?

These are all the green jobs that will be created when we take the plunge to creating a zero carbon economy.

A lot of these jobs will be filled by people from the oil, gas and coal industry, who will get free training and a guaranteed job.